# IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Other IT Infrastructure Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-it-infrastructure) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 32 ## About IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are high-performance, dedicated, secure, single-tenant cloud servers configurable in hourly and monthly options, on-demand, around the globe. As a bare metal IBM Cloud customer, you have complete access to one of the industry's largest selections of standard features and services for bare metal workloads in both small business and enterprise settings. Complete customization. 11M+ configurations to choose from. A global private network. Total control up and down the stack. Up to 20 TB of bandwidth included. Learn more: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/bare-metal-servers ## IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Reviews ### 1. Great Software to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dinesh S. | Proprietor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** It is one of the best software I have come across, really made my work a lot easier. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Nothing to dislike, great software with amazing features. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Keep up the good work. Really enjoying using the software. No other software on par to this. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are a couple of benefits, it has made my work easier. It's powerful, easy to use, and accurate. ### 2. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert S. | Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The User Interface and the speed of deploying these are awesome. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** You will receive a lot of notifications about events happening on IBM Cloud even from other data centers that you may not be a part of. It is annoying to get these since they have no value to you whatsoever. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** If you have a good background in IT and in particular working with servers, you should be able to work on these pretty easily. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a managed solution for various customers. Ease of implementation and the inexpensive cost of doing this are great ### 3. Very flexible and useful solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diogo R. | Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** the flexibility to build my on cloud structure in a security and scalable way and integrated with the public cloud solution available on IBM **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** We dont have the IBM Power System Available in Brazil region and some documentation about the setup are hard to find **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Is a very good solution to move workloads to the cloud while maintain the flexibility and control off the enviroment **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** with barematel we can move all workload from our on-premise enviroment to the cloud with litle enffort ### 4. Reliable Servers for All Industries **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** I like how sturdy these servers are when faced with complex, multi-integration networking. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Our servers were not as custom as we would have liked, making integration of new systems a little more clunky. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using IBM's bare metal servers we realized that we were easily able to network our entire building, making data more easily accessible to clients and employees. ### 5. IBM Bare Metal servers are good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** dongyul L. | Staff engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** security , and managed service are good. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** we can't selece maintenance date. we have to run 24 hours **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** ordering is fest ### 6. Wonderful service and very powerful servers! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** I have experienced great service from the IBM Cloud team from initial provisioning to issue resolution. The servers run great and whenever a problem arises they are usually already working on a solution or have fixed it! **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The web portal for softlayer is a bit slow sometimes. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting our training and demo infrastructure support systems on RHV. ### 7. stability and reliability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Bare metal structures are extremely robust and reliable, as well as quick support and advance warnings regarding possible maintenance **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** I have no reason not to recommend this product. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** using baremetal + virtualization, we have been able to bring more competitive prices to our products, with this we guarantee satisfaction of our customers ### 8. Quick and Easy Way **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The ease at which I can get a bare metal server provisioned and ready to use in the cloud. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Given that it's bare metal and not virtual there are certain ease of use features that aren't available. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Workloads that require high CPU/Memory utilization. ### 9. My review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** We are able to setup the environmet pretty quickly **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** support in the Asia Pacific region not so good, lots to improve **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** we would like to resolve regulatory issues with regards n site data ### 10. After ten years we are forced to find another IaaS solution... **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** SL was so customer oriented before it become IBM... **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** We were forced to pay something we did not neither order neither use... **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** do not use! **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Audio and video retransmission. ### 11. Good, but expensive **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** I like the stability of the servers and the phone support. That being said, their phone support is not as good as some other companies. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** They are expensive for everything. I have had to negotiate with them to bring the cost of new RAM for my server down. My server was unique and new servers have different pricing, but they originally quoted me $140/month for 8gb of ram. I recently cancelled one of they Cloud Compute platforms, but still have a dedicated server with them. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** There are always cheaper alternatives. Softlayer's is good for enterprise level customers. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** We offer hosting for our customers & run a MSSQL database server. ### 12. SoftLayer gives complete access compared to AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nagarjuna Y. | Software Development Engineer, Online Media, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** 1. SoftLayer has data centers interconnected on a global private network. We can select the specific SoftLayer data center location we want so they can provision servers in the exact location users desire 2. In AWS when we move data between AWS servers, we have seen “Inter-Region Data Transfer Out” and “Intra-Region Data Transfer” on our bills. But in SoftLayer when we try to move data from one SoftLayer facility to another SoftLayer facility (anywhere in the world), that transfer is free and unmetered though this is not mentioned we found this is good thing. 3. Though AWS and Softlayers are termed as IAAS Softlayer is a clear win since it provisions bare metal for customers which gives more power and advantages in terms of performance and other things.. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Need a very good scalable framework, designed by a very skilled engineer. Becuase beyond a certain number of users, the resources get chewed up quickly and if the framework is badly done, the system lags.Softlayer works better in the US because since because skilled engineers available in US as we are based in Asia we have encountered many issues with it. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** I have used SoftLayer for period of 3 months this is some what expensive and most of the people who wants just to host a website or mobile back-end this is not for you because the process of provisioning is quite overwhelming compare to MIcrosoft Azure and AWS. I suggest this only to enterprise users who wants top notch access to underlying bare machines & and need very high compute engines. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Hosting - It gives more power compared to amazon we have more power to customze our stacks but soon we have realized we are not users who should be using the softlayer ### 13. Very reliable, Very fast, Somewhat expensive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kyle R. | Senior Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** SoftLayer has, by far, the most reliable and consistent network I have ever seen. I have tried many dedicated server providers and no one else even comes close. In my 3 years of using this product, none of my monitoring services had reported any downtime. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The only downside is the somewhat high price, although it is very hard to complain when the service is so good. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** I would highly recommend SoftLayer Managed hosting if you need fast, high-availability dedicated servers and you have a large budget. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** High uptime dedicated servers and network. I never lost any sales due to network downtime and never had to waste my own time contacting support due to errors that were out of my control. ### 14. IBM WebShere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suresh. D. | Technical Lead/Architect, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Its a robust,universal app server to run a enterprise. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Its the best application server server I have used so far, only price matters on decision to purchase. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying application in a more secure, scalability and availability. Development stand point no need to worry on server level, concentrated more on business solution implementation. ### 15. I liked the speed and control **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan V. | Founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** I develop services that utilize user driven content. I like having complete control of the environment for customized toolchains. The people at Softlayer are able to offer some good advice about what a service actually needs to be dynamic and scalable. And they can provide it. It was a pleasant experience overall, to be able to spin up a new clone, develop, decide wether or not to deploy, and move on. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Softlayer uses a custom panel to manage servers and services. It takes some getting used to. It's more or less a dumbed down version of what's available in the API. But, the access to hardware sort of compensates for this. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Get a consult. Get a free year to develop your app. Understand how convenient it is to have someone else iron out any kinks for you. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently using Softlayer to accept user video, process it into web-viewable format, and make sure it's available for viewing as soon as possible. We've been able to publish more content more often. And the system reacts when there are event spikes. So when more users are online, more resources are available. Being able to provide a faster service has enabled us to increase ad revenue. ### 16. Very reliable and great features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Reliability is at par for the websphere. The set of features available for webshere enterprise is very good. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Software is getting a bit heavy. Works great but feels slow when compared to its cousin Websphere liberty profile. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Run as production server. Run Websphere commerce on premises. ### 17. Bit clunky but works **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunando B. | Co-Founder and CEO, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Softlayer has a very high level of automation and lot of stuff gets provisioned without any human involvement. This leads to super fast provisioning and management of of managed hosting services.... and then they back it up with Great support. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Softlayer has a poor service provisioning interface with lots of fine-print. Some charges are not clearly displayed because of which we had to pay a hefty additional charge in our first month of services. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** While Sotlayer is a great stable managed hosting platform, you need to be a bit careful while provisioning new services... be very sure to read every word before you click ahead... we had to pay $600 coz we missed a fine print. ### 18. Professional VPS provider, IBM Cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fan D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** VPS can be configurable, such as CPU, memory size, storage type, OS, networking and location of server. It also provide security access via standard VPN protocol. It provides a easy-use portal to manage VPS. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Since we has used VPS from SoftLayer, all services are good. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Another best choice of VPS provided by IBM cloud, compared with Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** SoftLayer provides us a reliable and fast virtual servers for hosting our O2O website. ### 19. I used SoftLayer for a short period while working for a small company in Sydney. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The website at the time was undergoing some changes and it hadn't quite "settled". The API proved to be sufficient for most tasks that I needed at the time - and of course this was the most obvious requirement for automation. While I didn't do anything too complicated, I can say that they accounted for all the features that I had hoped to find which was good. I believe I had to contact support on two occasions (API related) - and on both occasions the problem was resolved satisfactorily and in a timely manner. The support people were friendly and knowledgeable, and I didn't have to go through a ridiculous maze, or have to constantly ask for the call to be escalated. I should again point out that I was only there for under 3 months. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The website was a bit clunky and unintuitive, but I'm talking about early 2014. There wasn't anything else that stuck out that I disliked with respect to SoftLayer. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Amazon is a tough competitor in this market, so I'd suggest that the requirements are weight up against costs and services offered before making a big investment. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** The company had opted to use SoftLayer as they required physical machines (or at least they thought they did). The company was an on-line retailer, basically copying what Shopify was doing but in Australia. SoftLayer hosted all their web and mail services - at least all that I was aware of during my employment time there. ### 20. good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** best editing tool. Integrated ide with all services to develop new applications . **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** crashes multiple time when no memory to run or multiple clicks on ide makes ide to exit . **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** to make new applications . for analyzing the multiple files in the folder. ### 21. Excellent hardware, good network and bad support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier R. | Delegado de Alumnos ETSI Informáticos, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The hardware. It's probably the best hardware I have found after trying a lot of managed services. Also you have a lot of options to configure your network, which is a good point to evaluate when working with multiple servers. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The quality of the support is not the best, and maybe the worst support I have been working with. The provisioning interface is really complicated too. The billing interface is ambiguous and is difficult to know what are you paying for. It is a really expensive service for individuals and little companies too. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Look for your needs. This is supposed to be a managed service, and the first thing that comes to my mind when talking about managed services is a good support. We are using Softlayer services just because the hardware and the network are amazing. ### 22. SoftLayer is Highly Recommended! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe M. | Owner, Business Development, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** SoftLayer communicates frequently with clients, especially when they are doing maintenance on their systems. During all the years my company has worked with SoftLayer, we have never had a problem. Their uptime and management services are excellent. Their staff is knowledgeable and responsive. I highly recommend SoftLayer. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** There is nothing I dislike. They are an exceptional value for the cost. Their services are excellent. ### 23. One of the best Host I have used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anderson G. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** One of the most critical thing in host is support. SoftLayer's support is just great. It has good plan options with good scalability and the network speed is amazing. I have being used a private server and cloud server for about 5 years and it was a great experience. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The price sometimes is too high for small projects. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** I do recommend the Managed Hosting plans. Their support is great and very responsive. They can do everything you need in your host. ### 24. Power when you need it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark S. | Chief Technology Officer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Softlayer offers powerful servers. We took advantage of the nvidia k2 grid servers they offer, but they have many options when it comes to the hardware configuration that fits your needs. The support team is proactive and very responsive and they work hard ensure you have a smooth onboarding with their service. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Management console is difficult to navigate and not very intuitive. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** cloud computing, elastic servers. ### 25. Easy to use and configure cloud resource. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Velimir M. | Co-founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Ability to control system resources through the Python API. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Frequent service outage emails, although hasn't impacted my project. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Take a look at using the Python API for managing the servers, it is a powerful resource. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web site development, hosting large datasets. ### 26. Services and management seamless **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The ease of transitioning for locally hosted to manage hosting was easy for moving our VMs to the cloud. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Money talks, it is difficult to say that there were any issues with the product, it is just a very expensive service for small businesses. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Great solution, just not cost effective. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** hardware maintenance locally. ### 27. The best development tool when using WebSphere Application Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The best integration with WebSphere Application server during development and helps profiling and review the code. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Limited plugin and restricted support for Open source tools. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Expensive tools but commercially the best tool where WebSphere application servers is used. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web Development using Struts, Hibernate and WebSphere application server and the team is benefited by the seamless integration. ### 28. Solid hardware, OK pricing, OK interface, but horrendous support **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** - The hardware provided is decent and customizable. They have lots of different options for everything - 10Gig ubiquitous and available - Control panel interface is easy to use and effective most of the time - The price is OK for what you get **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Their support is some of the worst support I've dealt with. They have no triage system, its all first come first serve, no matter how serious the problem is. They will give people who are unknowledgeable about the problem at-hand first crack at the ticket. If you need support on a product they sell, and they don't know the answer, it is a pain in the ass to get them to contact the manufacturer for support. They will keep trying stuff from knowledge bases until they are blue in the face. You have no control over any networking besides picking how fast you want it. You can get a Vyatta virtual router, but any changes needed to be done on a switch (such as a VLAN change) need to go through a support ticket. if you need to change an IP address on a server, you need to submit a ticket. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** If you absolutely need to be in the cloud, consider another service unless you need slightly more control than AWS or similar offering. ### 29. had great experience, high speed and performance and excellent support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asd F. | software engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** I have used both monthly and hourly VSI and had great experience. Operating speed is very good and provides quick support facility in case of you messed up with your servers. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** They should provide latest version of python and ruby in rhel image. I've worked with rhel 6.4 but still default python version was 2.6. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Pleaee go ahead and try this. I hope u'll be gonna love this experience **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have installed openstack cloud on SL's VSI and also used it as my development server. Their repositories are always updated with latest rpm/ debian packeges. ### 30. RAD is a great tool to developer applications running on WebSphere **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** It works seamlessly with WebSphere runtime. You can guarantee that your code will run successfully on WebSphere environment. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** The product is very resource intensive. Has big footprint. You need a powerful laptop to use it. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developer various web applications for internal use. Quick development and runs without issue on WAS environment. ### 31. Limited exposure. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Waheed M. | Enterprise Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Wide ranges of offerings, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. DR, Big Data, etc. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** Some of the interfaces are bit challenging. **What problems is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Disaster Recover, we are looking to Cloud for DR solutions in order to reduce cost and gain efficiencies. ### 32. One of the Best Dedicated Server Provider in The Hosting Industry **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharanyan S. | ♛ Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** I used softlayer since 2009 - 2014 April, Their service quality, server up time, Hardware performance simply amazing! They deliver what they advertised on their site product page, I used their hardware to deliver business hosting services to my clients. If i receive any complaint form my clients simply forward this via my client portal and they fix all above issue with NO time. Their support speed and resolution time frame is one of the most accurate SLA in to this web hosting industry. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?** They should check out side market price and new trending features to cater their clients needs instead of deploying 2009 style Xeon2 processors for $399. Their competitors like Hivelocity,Peer1,LSN,Singlehop delivering Xeon7,32GB DDR,2x600GB SSD,1GBps port for $249, but softlayer still selling above configuration for 3x,4x price saying their hardware and service us premium quality. Of course, their hardware and service always amazing, However as a buyer we always compare high quality with less price, If you can conduct depth research and change your product features and price then you will be the undisputed leader in to this dedicated hosting industry. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers:** Talk with account managers to get best price for your new server, instead of placing your orders through their site front end. ## IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Discussions - [What if my bare metal server has out-of-date firmware?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/general-1e2e5c86-4005-45e6-a5b3-b2f51f05e134) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Why can I not connect to the KVM console?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/general-923c47d0-49fe-4310-b409-86cc8534a2ec) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is the difference between "Boot from Image" and "Load from Image"?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/general-137ed8dc-8a2c-4dd7-98bc-13bfa98be236) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can the Operating System (OS) be changed on the device?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/os-reloads-ca6d9a9b-5c73-4828-8538-250040b8e35a) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How can I track the status of the OS reload?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/os-reloads-ebeac1f2-b24a-4db5-9369-f1635463f676) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloud-bare-metal-servers/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-12+10%3A00%3A52+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5b62d33e-241a-4c26-b22d-a41eb83f54e8&secure%5Btoken%5D=fd9f33cc42c472f203b006a9ce96c318123257bfa638a487dc56430034376e07&format=llm_user) ## Top IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Alternatives - [AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloud-development-kit-aws-cdk/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (129 reviews) - [pgAdmin](https://www.g2.com/products/pgadmin/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (70 reviews) - [Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-bare-metal-cloud-services/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (14 reviews)